²¹ And it shall be, when^◦ many evils and adversities have found him, that this song shall answer before him for a witness; for it shall not be forgotten from the mouth of his seed; for I know what he has formed in his thoughts, which he is doing today, before^◦ I have brought him to^▵ the land which I promised.

¹ And David spoke to Jehovah the words of this song, in the day that Jehovah rescued him from the palm of the hand of all his enemies, and from the palm of the hand of Saul.